Sunday, October 29, 2017

Thunderbirds Air Show - Moody Air Force Base, GA

Saturday October 28th we attended the Air Show at Moody Air Force Base. Luckily, it was still a beautiful sunny day (high of 80*) since last night a cold front came through and this morning is in the 40's. So far it has moved up from 44* to 46*. Yikes! Needless to say I'm homesick for Panama!

On that note, I really do miss quite a lot in Panama. (good friends, year-round 80's, Neo-tropical birds, monkeys, sloths, the simpler life style and the list goes on.) Sometimes I still have the urge to push a shopping cart to the back of the line instead of pushing it forward. (yeah, makes no sense to do that, but that's what they do) It's still hard to go to Subway and order it in English. The other day I just blanked trying to find the English words for the bread choice. Odd since I never really spoke a lot of Spanish there, but always ordered my sub in Spanish. (avena dulce de seis, jamon, no queso, lechuga, pepino, acetuna & salsa mostaza dulce. Ya!) Honey oat, ham no cheeses, lettuce, cucumber, black olives and honey mustard sauce. Done! 

OK, back to the here and now....

Not a lot of text today, but many photos of the air show. We didn't bring our chairs today since on the website it said no large items to be brought in. (small purses only) Well, despite Greg being told he could bring in his camera but not the bag, we saw lots of chairs in bags that they didn't even x-ray. There were wagons full of stuff brought in. Interesting set of rules. So, we were regretting not tossing them in the trunk and we would have had them after we found out those were OK. We lived......

 Thunderbirds all lined up













 plane flying circles around the dot in the middle that is the parachuter















 this one was "no touch" the security detail were armed to make sure you didn't














 they did a simulation of an injury and the measures taken to get them to help safely













 they demonstrated refueling in the air


 comedy act the plane lands and takes off from the truck



 Thunderbirds getting ready for takeoff
 Thunderbirds lined up
 plane turned off the engine and performed as a glider
























































Hope you enjoyed it as much as we did!

Tomorrow, a much needed day off and this girl isn't going to be outside in 40* weather. (I didn't pack many warm clothes--which I will do next year)


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